Masks, Puppets and Performance Objects as Tools of Critique, REsistance and Agency in South Africa; Developing a Situational, Embodied and Postdramatic Approach for Dealing with the Cultural Trauma of Apartheid Ghent University
Dance studies showed how folk dance, mass choreographies and sports events served the
modern state’s bio-politics and developed a spectacle of nationhood. A supra-ethnic national
‘Yugoslavian’ identity was performed beyond religious, ethnic, cultural or gender differences
and this provided the basis for an antagonism between the so-called ‘communist East’ and the
‘capitalist West’. After WWII, Europe embarked on a ...